1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). 1907 - Events. January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000. January 23 - Charles Curtis fr ...

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1907 - January-March. January 20 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000) January 23 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) February 1 - Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972) February 15 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991) February 15 - Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994) February 17 - Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983) February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973) Febru ...

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1907 in rail transport - April events. April 15 - William N. Page is named president of the newly formed Virginian Railway. 1907 in rail transport - June events. June 26 - The Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad is formed from the merger of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad and the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad; the new railroad company is chartered to build the Hudson River tunnels that will connect the Pennsylvania Railroad ...

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Quebec Bridge - Background. Before the Quebec Bridge was built, the only way to travel from the south shore of the St. Lawrence in Levis to the north shore at Quebec City was to take a ferry. As far back as 1852 a project for a bridge over the St. Lawrence River at Quebec was considered, and again, in 1867, 1882, and 1884. A March 1897 article in the Quebec Morning Chronicle noted: The bridge question has again been revived after many years of slumber, and business men in Quebec seem ...

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Pike Place Market originally opened for business on August 17, 1907[1]. It was operated from wagons on a boardwalk adjacent to the Leland Hotel. After an enthusiastic response from local shoppers, the first building at the Market was opened in late 1907^{See also:}

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August August 1 - An Aeronautical Division is formed in the U.S. Army Signal Corps to oversee "all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects". September September 29 - Louis Breguet and Charles Richet demonstrate their Gyroplane No. 1, the first rotary-wing aircraft to lift a person off the ground. (The craft is still controlled by handlers standing around it on the ground). October October 12 - Augustus Gaudron cro ...

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624 Hektor is the largest of the Jovian Trojan asteroids. It was discovered in 1907 by August Kopff. Hektor is one of the most elongated bodies of its size in the solar system, being 370 × 195 km. It is thought that Hektor might be a contact binary (two asteroids joined by gravitational attraction) like 216 Kleopatra. Hubble Space Telescope observations of Hektor in 1993 did not show an obvious bilobated shape, but did not ...

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Dublin, March 1, 1848 - Cornish, New Hampshire, August 3, 1907), was the Irish-born American sculptor of the Beaux Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance." Raised in New York, after his parents immigrated to America when he was six months of age, he was apprenticed to a cameo-cutter, but also took art classes at the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. At 19, his apprenticeship completed, he traveled to Paris where he studied in the atelier of Francois Jouff ...

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Argentina Brunetti (August 31, 1907 — December 20, 2005) was an actress and writer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began her show business career at the age of three with a walk on role in the opera, Cavalleria Rusticana and followed Mimi Aguglia, her famous mother's footsteps in the theater performing supporting roles on stages throughout Europe, and South America. In 1937, she was placed under contract to MGM pictures and began dubbing the voices of Jeanette MacDonald and Norma Shearer in Italian. Next she became a nar ...

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Carl William Blegen (born January 27, 1887, Minneapolis, Minnesota; died August 24, 1971 Athens, Greece) was an archaeologist famous for his work on the site of Troy in modern day Turkey. Blegen was professor of classical archaeology at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio (1927–57). He directed the university's excavations of the mound of Hisarlik, the site of Troy, from 1932 to 1938. Blegen earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1904 and started graduate studies at Yale University in 1907. At Athens ...

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William Walters Sargant (April 24, 1907 - August 27, 1988), British psychiatrist, Founder and Director of the Department of Psychological Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London, where he established a laboratory for mind control experiments. He was also a consultant to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI5/MI6). William Sargant was a pioneer in methods of placing false memories into patients. He attested at the 1977 U.S. Senate hearing, "that the therapist should deliberately distort the facts of the patient's life-ex ...

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Jeron Criswell King (August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982) born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell, was an American psychic who was famous for his wildly inaccurate predictions. Criswell was born with the last name of Konig but later changed it to King and often represented it as his middle name, frequently credited as Jeron King Criswell. Criswell found cinematic infamy in the movies of Ed Wood, including Plan 9 from Outer Space and Orgy of the Dead. He was ...

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Alvin Karpis (August 10, 1907-August 26, 1979, born Alvin Karpowicz), nickname "Creepy" , was a noted criminal in the United States known for his alliance with the Barker gang in the 1930s. He was the last "Public Enemy Number 1" to be taken, a capture which elevated J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to national prominence. His stay at Alcatraz, a little over 25 years, was longer than any other inmate interned there. Alvin Karpis - Early Life. Karpis was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and was rai ...

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Arthur David Waley (August 19, 1889 – June 27, 1966) was a noted English Orientalist and Sinologist. Waley was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent England, as Arthur David Schloss, son of the economist David Frederick Schloss. He changed his surname to his paternal grandmother's maiden name, Waley, in 1914. Educated at Rugby School, he entered King's College, Cambridge in 1907, where he studied Classics, and was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1910. Arthur Waley - Early life and career. Waley was a ...

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Upon commissioning, Inflexible was assigned to the Nore Division of the British Home Fleet. On 26 May 1911, she was in a collision with the battleship Bellerophon, and suffered bow damage. She was under refit and repair through November, where her fore funnel was also raised by 6 feet. On the outbreak of World War I Inflexible was flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. Between 4 and 10 August 1914 she was engaged in the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau, before being ordered back to Britain on 19 August 1914. Bet ...

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August Natterer, given the pseudonym Neter by his psychiatrist to protect him and his family from the immense social stigma associated with mental illness at the time, was born in 1868 in Schornreute, near Ravensburg, Germany, the son of a clerk and the youngest of nine children. Natterer studied engineering, got married, traveled widely, and had a successful career as an electrician but was suddenly stricken with delusions and anxiety attacks. On April Fool's Day, 1907 he had a pivotal hallucination of the Last Judgment during which ...

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The murder of French citizens in Casablanca was used as a pretext for Lyautey to occupy of Oudja in 1907. Having been promoted to général de division, Lyautey was Military Governor of French Morocco from 4 August 1907 to 28 April, 1912. After the Convention of Fez established a French protecorate over Morocco, Lyautey served as Resident-General of French Morocco from April 28, 1912 to 25 August, 1925. An extremely apt colonial administrator, he is considered to be the creator of modern Morocco. During the First World War, he ...

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GCIII was signed in Geneva on June 17, 1925 by 128 nations. It was officially adopted in 1929 as an extension to the rights guaranteed by the Hague Convention of 1907. It was revised in 1949, with the modified form adopted on August 12 of that year by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva from April 21 to August 12 ...

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In 1898 he married Josephine Sheldon Edmonds (April 21, 1870 - June 25, 1935), an 1896 Radcliffe College graduate, who bore him five children: Charles Jacob Young, born December 17, 1899, (1899-1967); John Young, born August 13, 1902, (1902-1926); Josephine Young, born February 16, 1907, (1907-1990); Speculative fiction author as Josephine Young Case Philip Young, born May 9, 1910, (1910-1987); Chairman, Civil Service Commission (1953-1957) Richard Young, born June 23, 1919. In February 1937 married Louise Powis Clark, who was born in 1887. ...

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